Julien Friedler’s world is at the frontier of social, aesthetics, and science of dreams. Norbert Hilaire wanted to share this challenge: a labyrinth where cross love, death, language,
poetry,metaphysics, childhood
This book rejects the opposition of theory and practice, the philosopher and artist. It based on the assumption that there are artworks to move us, to help us think about our world.

Dominique Stella - The Infancy of Art

Julien Friedler stands for experimentation, research, at any cost, of a path through the diversity and complexity of life. He is not just an artist, but above all a man who continuously takes
risks, and this is the most interesting aspect of his personality.
Sometimes he appears disoriented, distracted by the many disciplines that absorb him: art is perhaps a lifeline to him, a way out, that enables him to live with courage and vivacity, with color,
exaggeration, derision and irony ; a way to get away from everyday life and the burden of a memory that haunts him, namely that of the depeate fate of his family.

Michael Darling - Spirit of Boz Part I

« There are instances of creative types who have found their calling in art later in life – the great artist Marcel Broodthaeres most readily comes to mind – but rarely has such a late bloomer
carried over his previous work so potently as Julien Friedler.
Friedler’s recent conversion to visual artist has been smoothed by is extensive studies, wrintings, and teachings in the realm of psychanalysis, a body of work that has perhaps inadvertently
provided him with a rich reservoir of experience, material, and structure on which to base his ambitious project, the Spirit of Boz.
This document is the touchstone from which his visual art output derives, giving it meaning and context, while also simultaneously serving as the literary artifact in a creative universe that to
date also includes photography, painting, performance, sculpture, installation, and comic books, but which will soon also comprise a company, commercial products, a foundation, and untold other
cultural entities that are together joined under the rubric of The Spirit of Boz…» Michael Darling

Michael Dewilde - Spirit of Boz Part II - In Quest

« Artist, writer, psychonalyst Julien Friedler conceived a new world, named Boz, and wrote it down in the book, Le Livre du Boz.
Le Livre du Boz itself adopts the form of a complex hypertext, in which three figures, Jack Balance, the Self and the Writer adopt a principal role. They are, in fact, all manifestations or
divisions of the author himself. It resembles a quasi-religious holy trinity, where references to the Freudian Id, Ego, and Super-ego seem equally plausible, but then with a healthy pinch of
irony and self-critique.
In this text, Friedler not only calls our world into question but also formulates a series of new myths and answers in response. The world of Boz is not stable, is no located whithin time and
space, but exists within a relentless expansion ; it grows with every day… »

Erno Vroonen - Part III Be Boz

« As a prelude to the World of Boz he writes the book that is to have no ending. As a master without any particular distinction, his choice as an artist is to be the initiator of a universal
work. He develops strategies, provides instruments, and formulates viable propositions. Both doubt and certainty form part of the cryptic message. Boz is to mature in consecutive stages and shape
the inifinite stream of thoughts through an idiosyncratic programme of activities, utilizing its proper strengh and resources only.
The Spirit of Boz originated from the « Livre du Boz » and vice versa. Be Boz is an invitation to engage in the world of Boz. Boz is a brand concept not very different from Apple or Nike, it
conveys the freedom of art in its most comprehensive sense. Freedom express a being free from something, it implies a reaction against a restrictive and decepetive structure from which it
conversely derives its right of existence. This is why Boz is confined to remain both unrestricted and distinctive at the same time. »

Sonia Bressler - Java, art as a new myth

The publishing house Jacques Flament is pleased to inform you of the publication of the book Java, art as a new myth, written by Sonia Bressler and translated into
English by Andrée Coconnier. This book offers a double type of travel: a far away journey since it leads us to Java (a one thousand facets’ island) and a journey where we delve into contemporary
art and its practices. An interrogation which takes the form of a myth where we slowly enter a less ordinary « Java »…

Java, a faraway place at the crossing of chance and coincidences. Where the earth and the sky bump and blaze up. That island is a continent, both immense and fragile. Time does not exist there,
it took a fancy to space. They act together to define an art of living and culture, making them rich and mysterious. In November and December 2011, I crossed the Equator to travel down to the
depths of my beliefs. A complete upset around an artistic project launched by the artist Julien Friedler: The Forest of Souls.

That project is mostly articulated around the necessary meeting with other people, the encounter between the Other(s) and myself. Of course, meetings in that faraway land from my homeland have
another form and unfold on a different tempo. From Jakarta to Yogyakarta, from congested ring roads to Merapi heights, you must not get out of breath.

Art is mixed with shamanism, religion or even cooking. Art is in turn referring to magic, craftsmanship, invention or the environment. It is continuously escaping to reappear with another mask.
Might it be a myth? A legend starting again and again?